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The Boy Scouts of America occasionally releases data on merit badges earned. The data below is sorted by the number of merit badges most recently earned. Click on the ►◄ icons to sort by the different columns. Here is a more detailed version: Merit Badge Rankings.pdf.

Wiki Hits are the total number of page hits on this Wikipedia site from April 2007 through December 2008.

Notes

The merit badges with the most page hits tend to be Eagle required. These also show the most merit badges earned. Scouts learn about requirements and print workbooks for merit badges they will earn.

While the Wiki page hits cannot be exactly correlated with merit badges earned, there are some trends. Overall, for every 2 page hits, there was one merit badge earned. Some merit badges have significant interest but with a low percentage completing the merit badges:

American Business - 27 pages hits for each merit badge earned. Least popular - only 539 American Business Merit Badges earned.